The Decline of the West: Form and Actuality - Oswald Spengler

Descriere The Decline of the West: Form and Actuality - Oswald Spengler

\n \nThis book changes your views on history, civilization, and the world.\n \n \n\n \nGerman philosopher and polymath Oswald Spengler displays his controversial opinions about world history. He defines culture as a superorganism which has a lifespan of birth, flourishing, and death, and defines civilization as the end-product of culture.\n \n \n\n \nHe divides the entire history of the world into eight distinct cultures, from which all civilizations, religions, and wars arose. Spengler was criticized for his cataclysmic prediction of the downfall of western civilization in the twenty first century, yet it's shocking to see markers for this prediction in everyday news.\n \n \n\n \nHe claims that democracy is but the political weapon of money, and that media is the means through which money operates a democratic political system. According to him, the penetration of money's power through a society is one of many signs of the shift from culture to civilization.\n \n \n\n \nAfter reading this, you'll be more learned in history, philosophy, science, mathematics, architecture, music, art, literature, and even Greek and Latin. \n \n \n\n \nWhen the first volume of The Decline of the West appeared in Germany a few years ago, thousands of copies were sold. Cultivated European discourse quickly became Spengler-saturated. Spenglerism spurted from the pens of countless disciples. It was imperative to read Spengler, to sympathize or revolt. It still remains so.\n \nWhen Oswald Spengler speaks, many a Western Worldling stops to listen.\n \n New York Times\n \n \n\n

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Left Of Brain Books

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ENSTK

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9781396318269

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1

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